Re: Dating the Internet (was Re: Funny Tech Writing)

[John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

Ah yes ... I remember when ...

I started using email back when I was at DEC in the late '70s. Of course 
it was inside Digital only ...

I also had an early Prodigy account sometime around 1989 ... had quite a 
nice community of writers as I recall. I think our BBS group was "Yup, 
Writing Skills." <Intentional quote placement around period>

And I remember the very first AOL version for PCs (it started as Mac 
only) ... it came with its own runtime GEM GUI because Windows 3.0 was 
still a year in the future.

As for the Internet, and how it's just ballooned, I have a few 10-year 
old issues of Boardwatch Magazine which, in its day, was the definitive 
guide to all things online (it started out as a list of phone numbers 
that you could use to dial in to access bulletin board services). One 
graphic shows the expansion of the internet from a handful of sites to 
<gasp> almost a million!

Now, back to work!


John



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